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Chel Diokno was born on February 23, 1961, in Pasay City as the eighth of ten children to human rights lawyer Jose W. Diokno, who later became a Senator, and Carmen "Nena" Icasiano. [5] He is the great-grandson of Ananías Diokno , a leader of the Visayans during the Philippine–American War , and the grandson of Ramón Diokno , a nationalist ...
Chel Diokno is a human rights lawyer, Chairman of FLAG, head of the Diokno Law Center and member of the Jose W. Diokno Foundation, founding Dean of the DLSU Tañada-Diokno School of Law, and former Special Counsel of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee. Chel Diokno ran for
The Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) is a nationwide organization of human rights lawyers in the Philippines. [5] [6] It was founded in 1974 by Sen.Jose W. Diokno, [5] Lorenzo Tañada, [7] J.B.L. Reyes, [4] and Joker Arroyo [8] during the martial law era under former President Ferdinand Marcos. [9]
Chel Diokno and Agoncillo share this relation while simultaneously being linked as cousins in a different degree through another common ancestor surnamed Diokno, and are also related through a common ancestor from Batangas surnamed Marasigan. [5] [6] Fr. Jose Diokno, (1819), A Filipino secular priest, appointed from 1819 to 1859 as a parish priest.
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Imee Marcos did not acknowledge either Chel Diokno or the protest chants of his supporters. [108] On November 10, 2018, the anti-graft court Sandiganbayan found that she and her siblings benefited from the illegal Swiss foundations that her mother, Imelda Marcos, created and maintained.
Mr. Diokno's success in the bar exams is further underscored by the fact that he was also under-age [2] and that he also placed number 1 in the 1940 CPA Board exams which he took while in law school, summa cum laude [3] after graduating from then De La Salle College [4] at the age of 17. This double number 1 feat may never be paralleled.
Diokno was born in Manila, the eldest of six children to lawyer Chel Diokno and writer Divina Aromin.. Diokno attended La Salle Green Hills for grade school and high school. . He then pursued a bachelor's degree in Film and Audio-Visual Communication at the University of the Philippines - College of Mass Communicati